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Feedback Requested: Expanding to Semi-Managed WordPress Hosting
Hello,
My team is planning to expand from managing our client's WordPress sites to offering semi-managed WordPress hosting for others. Currently, we handle client hosting based on their budget, using shared hosting or VPS.
As we move into semi-managed hosting, we're planning not to offer hosting control panels. Instead, each site will be automatically deployed using our custom setup, with manual fine-tuning of the WordPress stack. Each user will be given access to SSH/SFTP.
Initially, we're aiming to serve up to 100 users. Our pricing will be straightforward: $1.5 per site per month.
What do you think?
PLEASE NO SPAMMING!
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One site will be $18/year?
What are the specs?
So basically you'll get $150/month and for that you have your normal hosting costs, you have to answer questions from your users ("I've lost my password") and you want to do manual fine-tuning?
Can't see that to be anywhere near bringing in some kind of profit, i.e. being sustainable in the long term.
We do it anyway now for our clients... Initially we want to expand it to 100 users, if everything works out, we will come with more costly plans, with better specs and dedicated resources. My team member is already working on simple control panel which we are planning to include when its completed.
Btw.... thanks for the advice, we will re-evaluate our plan once.
Planning to host it on multiple 4core, 16gb nodes.
Don't know what your hourly costs for manual intervention are, but that is usually with these kind of projects left out of the projected costs, but always keep in mind that users will contact you and it will cost time (and thus money).
So either take that into account for your price, or try to keep the need for a user to contact you as low as possible. Lowering price when your calculations were too high is easier as increasing your price when you have a loss.